tox tests are failing after multiple retries ...No package matching 'gettext' is available "

[Ronelle Landy]

tox tests are failing in gate after multiple retries - with the following error:

2020-10-09 16:52:29.953743 |
2020-10-09 16:52:29.953951 | TASK [Install distro packages from bindep]
2020-10-09 16:52:31.651147 | ubuntu-bionic | ERROR
2020-10-09 16:52:31.652326 | ubuntu-bionic | {
2020-10-09 16:52:31.652461 | ubuntu-bionic | "msg": "No package matching 'gettext' is available"
2020-10-09 16:52:31.652586 | ubuntu-bionic | }

2020-10-09 16:22:42.851447 |
2020-10-09 16:22:42.851708 | TASK [fetch-tox-output : Get tox version]
2020-10-09 16:22:54.033820 | ubuntu-bionic | ERROR
2020-10-09 16:22:54.035216 | ubuntu-bionic | {
2020-10-09 16:22:54.035325 | ubuntu-bionic | "msg": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'tox': 'tox'",
2020-10-09 16:22:54.035436 | ubuntu-bionic | "rc": 2
2020-10-09 16:22:54.035533 | ubuntu-bionic | }

Example outputs:

https://storage.bhs.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_dcaab5e32b234d56b626f72581e3644c/zuul_opendev_logs_fac/756475/5/gate/openstack-tox-py27/fac31dd/job-output.txt

https://storage.bhs.cloud.ovh.net/v1/AUTH_dcaab5e32b234d56b626f72581e3644c/zuul_opendev_logs_e6f/756590/2/gate/openstack-tox-py36/e6f7a92/job-output.txt

[Ronelle Landy (rlandy)]

possibly an infra hitch ...

<fungi> rlandy|rover: yes, one of our larger regions had a problem with its mirror server, we've taken it out of rotation for the time being